Casting JonBenet (2017), Netflix, Directed by Kitty Green —
‘Can you know what your prayers have set in motion?’– CT Dreyer ‘Ordet’
‘A real whore should be able to attract by what she’s reduced to being’ – Jean Genet ‘The Screens’
It was a crime that re-defined perfect. On Christmas night 1996, the most sacrosanct American values—home, family, children’s innocence—even Christmas—were all violated in a single obscene act. Not since Hickock and Smith had the country at large felt so unsure of itself as a free and trusting society. And like England in the era of Brady and Hindley, the murder of JonBenet Ramsey led many Americans to imagine something unimaginable to them: an impulse so selfish that a child’s life could be … [Read more...]